reviews

Another Side Splitting Teen Comedy! Author: Louise Rennison Life for fourteen year old Georgia Nicolson is anything but easy. Angus, her ferocious cat, is bent on terror and love of the Burmese sex kitten next door; Libby, her baby sister, piles into her bed nightly with scuba diving Barbie, kitchen pans, and some less savory food items; Robbie, aka the Sex God, has cut things off, believing that Georgia is just too young and it looks like he’ll return to Wet Lindsay instead. Jas, well, she so obviously doesn’t care because her boy will be away for a whole week [...]

The B-Movie of Books: So Bad That It's Bad Author: Carol Durand Prowling Amazon for daily free e-books, I discovered A Murder Moist Foul. While the use of moist in a book title evokes either a bad erotica or worse, some sort of soupy horror novel, the second portion of the title, proclaiming this a cozy mystery, which upon closer inspection is revealed to rotate around one of my favorite guilty pleasures, cupcakes, was more than enough to tempt me. The second novel in the series, A Pinch of Murder, was also free, and it seemed like a good way to [...]

Out of Africa: A Memoir of Living in Kenya Author: Isak Dinesen A memoir style portrait of early colonial life in British East Africa (Kenya), Out of Africa is an account that fluctuates between elegy and euphoria. Written by Baroness Karen von Blixen-Finecke under the pen name Isak Dinesen, the long account gives no thought to chronological structure, but instead meanders with the moods of memory and the sways of emotion.  Depicting the Africa of her utopia days, there is something brilliantly beautiful resonating in the poetry of her delivery and the subtle beauty of her thoughts. Highlighting human relationship, [...]